Pratchett wanted final work destroyed by a steamroller

Neil Gaiman says that Terry Pratchett still talks to him when he is writingKEO Films

The fantasy author Terry Pratchett wanted his unfinished work to be run over with a steamroller, according to his close friend, the writer Neil Gaiman.

In an interview with The Times, to be published in the Saturday Review tomorrow, Gaiman, the award-winning author of The Sandman and Coraline, reveals that Pratchett, his confidant of 30 years, told him that he wanted “whatever he was working on at the time of his death to be taken out along with his computers, to be put in the middle of a road and for a steamroller to steamroll over them all”.

Gaiman adds that he is “ridiculously glad that that hasn’t happened”. Pratchett’s final novel, The Shepherd’s Crown, was published yesterday.